Johan Lindvall - Piano

Fredrik Rasten - composition, sine wave programming

Recorded by Marcus Forsgren at Studio Paradiso, Oslo on the 13th of January 2021

Mixed by Espen Reinertsen in Oslo on the 14th of January 2021
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi


Full album:

https://fredrikrasten.bandcamp.com/album/four-parallel-rivers

aerodynamic (from album 'four parallel rivers')

Jon Heilbron - double bass
Fredrik Rasten - e-bowed acoustic guitar, composition

Murmurations I (excerpt) - Arches - Jon Heilbron & Fredrik Rasten

recorded november 22th 2021
in the Czech Museum of Music

played on Alois Haba two leveled quarter tone grand piano

..and rising

rising

Recorded November 22th 2021
in the Czech Museum of Music

Played on Alois Haba's two leveled quarter tone grand piano

cloudy

ekmeles:


Charlotte Mundy soprano · Elisa Sutherland mezzo-soprano
Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek mezzo-soprano · Steven Bradshaw tenor
Jeffrey Gavett baritone & artistic director · Steven Hrycelak bass

premieres 2022

May 27, 2022 
The Crypt at the Church of the Intercession

Live recording by Craig Slonczewski

Ekmeles - Harmony for six voices

An arrangement of one verse from 

'Song Composed in August' by the Scottish poet and lyricist
Robert Burns (1759 - 1796)

Voice and guitars, arrangement - Fredrik Rasten

Recorded April 20, 2022

Video:

https://youtu.be/D6oJYBopFT0

Song Composed in August (one verse) by Robert Burns

Johan Lindvall - Five songs for voice and guitar

Words by Marianne Moore, selected by Johan Lindvall

Fredrik Rasten - voice and guitar

Recorded December 2015 at the Norwegian Academy of Music
by Kyrre Laastad.

Traps

Silence

Giraffe

Buffalo

Alone

Limits

Fredrik Rasten - e-bowed acoustic guitar, compostion
Vilde Sandve Alnæs - violin
Torstein Lavik Larsen - trumpet
Inga Margrete Aas - viola da gamba

Limits - 4

Germaine Sijstermans - clarinet
Johnny Chang - viola
Fredrik Rasten - e bowed acoustic guitar and composition

Live at Maanplein, Heerlen, Netherlands, at the Cultura Nova festival 30.08.2018

video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho7eg9MP04w

Harmony for two or more voices (trio)

Recorded live at chords, melodies festival, KM28, Berlin on January 8 2019
(sorry for some digital clicks).

Marc Sabat - violin
Thomas Nicholson - violin
Johnny Chang - viola
Catherine Lamb - viola
Vilhelm Bromander - double bass
Fredrik Rasten - e-bowed guitar, composition


Photo by Photomusix / Cristina Marx

Harmony for two or more voices (sextet)

Limits

Fredrik Rasten - e-bowed acoustic guitar, compostion
Vilde Sandve Alnæs - violin
Torstein Lavik Larsen - trumpet
Inga Margrete Aas - viola da gamba

Recorded live at the Norwegian Academy of Music on the 28th of May 2019 by Espen Reinertsen and Torstein Lavik Larsen

Limits - Three voices

View is a solo piece written for cellist Emile Girard-Charest and can be realized either on cello with a "bach-bow" covering three or four strings, or with a bowed fretless guitar with the two top strings removed.

Emile Girard-Charest - Cello

Recorded live at UdK, Berlin on 10th of July 2019

View (for cello)

Recorded at home on 23rd of November 2020

(Demo for planned release)

score:

http://fredrikrasten.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Murmurations-I-III.pdf

Murmurations III

Fredrik Rasten: acoustic guitar, voice

Svevning is a Norwegian word meaning levitation or flying, in the sense of flying without
effort – like when a bird is fully supported by the airstream, merely gliding.

Svevning also refers to interference or beating, the acoustic phenomenon that occurs when
two tonal sounds differ in pitch only slightly. When two tones are sustained with stability, their difference in frequency manifests sonically as a pulsating pattern of vibration. As the difference in frequency between the two tones increases, the speed, or frequency of the pulse increases correspondingly until a point or
area is reached where the difference is no longer heard as a pulse, but as a tone. This is
what is known as a difference tone.

I do not know how the two meanings of ‘svevning’ (in German, Schwebung) relate to each
other etymologically, but I find a latent poetry in their combined meanings and connotations.

Svevning is an extension of my earlier piece Limn. The music unfolds as an ever-changing continuum of chords, propelled by open strings and their harmonic nodes, slowly interwoven by retuning, patterns of plucking and occasional
voice.

Fredrik Rasten, July 2021, Berlin




all rights reserved 
credits
released October 5, 2021

Recorded by Fredrik Rasten at CityLAB Berlin on March 3 & 5, 2021.
Mixed by Sam Dunscombe.
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi.
Cover artwork and design by d’incise.
Thanks to Marcus Pal, Mareike Lee, Adam Asnan, CityLAB Berlin, Sam, Giuseppe and
d’incise.

Released on INSUB records

buy download or cd here:

fredrikrasten.bandcamp.com/album/svevning

Svevning I

Svevning II

Fredrik Rasten is a guitarist and composer (b. 1988) working in the field of experimental music, both improvised and composed. His main focuses are exploring and utilizing the acoustic possibilities of the steel string guitar. The last years he has been working extensively with just intonation, taking an extended concept of consonance as a point of departure. He has studied in this field with  Catherine Lamb and Marc Sabat in Berlin. In his work he is also inspired by wandelweiser music, traditional british folk and early music.



contact: fredrikrasten(at)gmail(dot)com

Fredrik Rasten

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